The Glass Menagerie Chorus
Making Music in Greenwich Village since 1986
Acer palmatum, Stuyvesant Sq. Park, Lower Manhattan
Photo K. R. O'Connell
Welcome!
The Glass Menagerie is a 50-voice community chorus based in Greenwich Village. We’ve been making music together since 1984. We rehearse on Thursday evenings during the academic year at LREI (Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School), 272 Sixth Avenue at Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014. Our regularly scheduled concerts take place in December and May.
Upcoming Fall Concert
Painting (detail): Marc Chagall, Le violoniste bleu.
Strings Attached: Music for Chorus & Violin
The program features violinist Ashley Horne and highlights Eric Whitacre’s Hebrew Love Songs. The performance also offers works by Edward Elgar and contemporary composers such as Dan Forrest, Sean Ivory, and Joseph Rubenstein; and concludes with our traditional sing-along of seasonal favorites—a joyful way to welcome the holiday season.
Sunday afternoon, December 7, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 9th Avenue at 28th Street
New York, NY 10001
Suggested donation: $30 Adult / $15 Student
Tickets can be purchased online and at the door
Listen to our April 28, 2024, performance of Rich Campbell’s “Border”:
How Can We Keep From Singing?
During the darkest days of the pandemic, the Glass Menagerie Chorus was determined to keep making music together. We rehearsed on zoom every week and made this video—because how could we keep from singing?
The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o'clock
For five consecutive nights in October (3–7) 2018, 1,000 singers from across New York City, including members of The Glass Menagerie, came together on the High Line for the first-ever performances of The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock. Audience members were active participants in this ambitious, collective, free choral work.
Audience members walked along the park, moving in and out of groups of singers, immersing themselves in hundreds of stories, inspired by the accounts of a wide range of New Yorkers, about life in our rapidly changing city.
7 o'clock means something different for everyone. What does it mean to you?
For more information, head on over to milelongopera.com
Read about us in the New York Times!
Check out the New York Times’ interview with our Artistic Director Susan Glass. The occasion was our March 4, 2015, appearance in THE EVENTS, an innovative theater production by Scottish playwright David Greig, at New York Theatre Workshop.
Dr. Susan Glass is the 2015 recipient of the Organization of American Kodály Educators' Outstanding Educator award!
More than 30 years of singing!
In May 2014 we received a Proclamation from the New York City Council marking our 30th anniversary making music together in Greenwich Village.
May 3, 2014: The Glass Menagerie Receiving The council of New York city proclamation marking the celebration of our 30th anniversary.